Washington Independent Review of Books

Matthew Norman’s witty debut novel, Domestic Violets, is a story about a failing marriage, the angst of aging, career aspirations gone awry and second chances — in other words, a story more frequently told from a woman’s perspective.

Open Letters Monthly

Here is a book that wears its heart on its title page: a domestic novel written by a man, about a man, from a decidedly masculine point of view, yet it’s not soaked with testosterone or obsessed with panoptic pronouncements on the state of the world.